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Show 172: The 6th Commandment · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: A Hey, y'all, welcome to today's show. Looks like I
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was able to get this one done after all. After
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our our usual questions and answers from radio replies. We'll
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get back into follow Sparago's exhaustive catechism the Catholic Church,
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and we're going to get into the sixth of the
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Ten Commandments, and it's actually rather brief. It follows so
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closely on the heels of the fifth commandment, thou should
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not kill. So if you listen to yesterday's show, this
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one's going to put a lot into perspective if you
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didn't go listen to yesterday's show. If not, you know
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follow Sparago was an amazing catechist in the eighteen nineties
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when he wrote his book, You certainly will get the
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full meaning of debt. So so let's start with the
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anti Catholic is questioning the priests. They said, he says
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the same Christ said, whoever shall be greatest, let him
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be the servant of all. And they answer, that is
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verified in the pope, whose official title is a servant
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of the servants of God being first, he is a
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servant of all Catholics. He ministers to our spiritual needs
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and gives his life to work, renouncing self chosen career.
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But the words you quote do not dispense us from
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honoring the pope as victor of Christ. Person says there
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is not much holiness in having an evil woman as pope?
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How could she be the victor of Christ? You know,
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I think you know. I've heard just about every anti
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Catholic argument, but this is one that I've read about.
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No one has ever accused the pope of being a woman,
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as far as I'm concerned, I mean, as far as
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I know. But apparently that was a rumor that went
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around somewhere in the early nineteen hundreds, late eighteen hundreds.
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Who knows and they answer. Some misguided writers have spoken
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of a fee pope named Johan, who was supposed to
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have reigned from eight fifty five to eight fifty seven
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a d. But never was a greater hoax put over
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on a credulous public. Voltaire laughed at the gullibility of
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fools who believe this tale, and Voltaire was sortainly certainly
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no fan of Catholicism. The Encyclopedia Britannic assays that she
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is a pure myth. Chambers Encyclopedia calls her a fabulous personage,
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in other words, a fable, not great. We use the
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word fabulous as if it's wonderful. It actually means like
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in a fable. It's sort of an odd American phrase
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that you know, could actually be rather confusing. Sometimes. Gibbons,
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in his Decline and Fall, exploded the legend half a
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century ago, saying a most palpable forgery is in is
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the passage about Pope Joan, which has been and then
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foisted into some manuscripts. Her advocates bear testimony against themselves,
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producing echoes at the late fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth century,
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at least five centuries after her supposed death, she has
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been annihilated by two learned Protestants, Blondell and Bail, but
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others still attempt to save this poor engine of controversy.
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I love the way people used to talk. Anyway, the
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person goes on to all popes and priests go to heaven,
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and they answer no, not unless they live good lives
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or at least die, or at least die repentant of
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their sins. They must save their own souls just as others,
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and can lose their souls if they wish person asked,
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was not Alexander the sixth one of the most evil
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men that has ever been seen? And they answer not quite,
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Although he was certainly a disgrace to his office. But
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it is just because his office demanded such holiness that
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his life life was so utterly incongruous. Yet, if you
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reject the papal system because of Alexander, you must logically
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reject the College of Apostles because of Judas. And remember
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that the life led by Alexander discuss Catholics far more
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than it discussed Protestants, for Catholics know what is really
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expected of a pope in accordance with Catholic spiritual principles.
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Had Alexander lived up a Catholic teaching in its fullness,
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he would have been a saint, even as many popes
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are saints. But then, of course he would never have
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been mentioned by Protestants. Nice little dig there. A person
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goes on, many popes died violent deaths, which is ridiculous.
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They answer, not many, a few, and very few. The
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assassination of the king would prove neither that he was
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never the lawful head of a nation, nor that he
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was an evil man. And we'll wrap it up here
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with the question a large proportion of the popes, Well,
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this is more assertion. We'll go with that a large
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proportion of the popes were men of whom any church
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would be ashamed. And they answer not a large proportion.
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History records six or seven having been unworthy of their office.
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Out of two hundred and sixty popes. That proportion is
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about one in forty one in twelve is the proportion
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of evil men among the apostles chosen by Christ himself.
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But this does not affect the question of their under discussion.
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But this does not affect the question under discussion. It
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proves nothing more that certain individuals failed to live up
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to the obligations of their state of life, and that
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some bad men were rulers of the church. And they
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could be quite good rulers from many points of view,
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even though personally lacks And if you really wanted to
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get into how many actual bad popes are been by
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my account, it's like two or three, like actual and
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really more like two. But I don't I don't claim
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to know the details of every of the lies of
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every single pope over the last two thousand years. But
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you get a lot of Protestant propaganda that is just
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made up, just playing made up. And you know, the
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thing is is so funny. Y'all all know doctor Taylor Marshall.
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I mean, I mean, he's one of the most popular
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Catholic podcasters and speakers and writers, controversial figure, you know,
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you name it. People love him or hate him. I'm
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actually quite a fan. He put out something the other
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day and someone came back and said Peter was never
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in Rome, so he can't be the first Pope. And
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you hear this so many times from Protestants, and he's like, well,
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here's a citation in the early Church writings, here's a
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citation in the secular historians of Rome. Here's this. And
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they're like, no, I don't believe it. I only believe
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what's in the Bible. For Pete's sakes to speak, Who
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told these people that the Bible is a comprehensive history book.
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A lot of stuff happened that was not written down
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in the Bible. And when Saint Peter was martyred under
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I believe it was Nero. The books of the Bible
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had already been written. I mean, how in the world,
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I mean, you give someone a historical document that's credited,
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that's been preserved in museums for you know, fifteen hundred
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and two thousand years. They say, Nope, it's not in
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the Bible. I don't believe it. Okay, great, there's a
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lot that's not in the Bible. There's actually a whole
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lot the Bible never said about, you know, the space
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Shuttle program or you know, nuclear weapons. The Bible doesn't
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talk about Sputnik. Does that mean it didn't happen? Well,
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they could say, well, the Bible's written two thousand years ago.
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We got well, Spotnick is now almost one hundred years ago.
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Shouldn't the Bible have included it? If the only book
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you're allowed to read is the Bible. I mean, the
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Bible doesn't mention the Crusades. Again, we're going back about
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a thousand years. The Bible doesn't mention the fall of
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Rome because Rome hadn't fallen when the Bible was written.
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That's what anyway, we don't I'm not even trying to
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nail down the year. But you know what I'm saying,
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The Bible doesn't speak of Native Americans. Native Americans existed
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at the same time the Bible was written. The continent
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of North and South America. The continents have not been
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discovered by Europeans yet, and especially you know, Middle Eastern
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Europeans who wrote the Bible. You cannot you know, well,
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as the saying goes, can't put sense in a fool's brain.
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And anyone who says, I only believe what's written in
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the Bible is learned in some respects in terms of religion,
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but ignorant to history. They're probably what a few hundred people,
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a couple hundred people mentioned in the Bible. Does that
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mean that the other million or so who were in
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the world at the time didn't exist? I mean, if
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I was going to say, you know, here's a writing
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by whomever, whomever, we're call him Bob, Okay, Bob Othete
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or something. Okay, we're just calling Bob right, and he
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wrote a bunch of books. I'm just making this up, right.
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But let's say I can present to you the writings
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of Bob in three hundred a d. And they've been
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found in a cave as salt, perfectly sealed, absolutely pristine.
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Carbon dating says exactly when they come from. And Bob's
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telling you the history of people who lived in his town,
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nothing to do with religion whatsoever. He's just naming everybody
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who lived on his street and on his block, and
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knew their relatives were and what they had for supper.
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And I give you the writings of Bob, having been
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proven by every historian and known for two thousand years.
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And you say, I don't believe Bob ever existed or
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his neighbors because they're not mentioned in the Bible. How
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much sense does that make? We had remember always remember
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Jesus left us a church, not a Bible. There was
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no Bible for almost four hundred years of Christianity. What
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they had was the teachings of the Apostle and certain
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Old Testament scriptures. They had some letters, like the church
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in Corinth had the the letters that Saint Paul wrote
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to the Church in Corinth. They didn't have the letters
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he wrote to Ephesus. Okay, it was no The Bible
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was compiled, completed, put together in the late three hundreds,
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translated into a common language somewhere between three eighty to
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four ten, for twenty eight for longer, for twice as
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long as America has been a nation, Christianity had no Bible.
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So Protestants who say they believe in the Bible alone,
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as the soul authority would have to say, for almost
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four hundred years there was no Christianity after Christ and
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a church that was not Christian put the Bible together
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and gave it to him. Saint Augustine said, I would
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not believe the Gospels except that the Catholic Church says
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it is true. It really is the only authority we
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have to even say what's written down in the Bible
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is the truth. The only witnesses are the ones the
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Apostles who wrote the books, who taught and gave us
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the Bible. You know, it's it's mind boggling sometimes how
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willfully ignorant and how people can just tie everything in
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knots rather than accept that Jesus founded church, and the
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church is the Catholic Church that gave us the Bible,
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and that continues to teach what's written down and what's
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in oral tradition from the Apostles to this very day.
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Bible itself says it doesn't contain all the teachings of Christ.
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It says that all the books in the world wouldn't
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what the apostles could in their minds, and by teaching
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and talking to their disciples who went on to become
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bishops and priests who went on and did the same thing.
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And that continued, when that continues to this day. But anyway,
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let's go ahead and get to the sixth Commandment. And
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like I said, the sixth Commandment is really an unfolding
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of one aspect of the fifth Commandment. That's why it's
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rather short the sixth Commandment. In the sixth Commandment, this
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was I'm quoting fall Sparago. Now in the sixth Commandment,
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God prohibits everything that might strain, that might stain our
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purity or that of our neighbor. One cannot enlarge upon
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the sins against the sixth Commandment, for the mere mention
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of what is impure takes a bloom off of our innocence. Hence,
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Saint Paul exhorts the Ephesians all in cleanliness, let it
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not so much as be named among you as becometh
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Saints Ephesians five to three. Nevertheless, Holy scripture warns the
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faithful repeatedly and emphatically against these sins, so the Church
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cannot pass by them in silence, for this vice perhaps
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causes the destruction of more souls than any other In fact,
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among the lost souls in hell, few will be found
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entirely free from it. God especially forbids, impure thoughts, and desires.
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Evil thoughts are to be resisted both on account of
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their sinfulness in themselves and because they lead to immodest actions.
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They are like a spark which occasions a great conflagration
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or fire unless it be immediately extinguished. Saint Jerome compares
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unchastity to a snake whose head must be instantly crushed
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before it can eject deadly poison. Evil thoughts must accordingly
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be banished at once. This is done most readily by
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diverting the mind or having recourse to prayer. See what
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is said about temptation. I guess we'll get that in
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a minute. As long as evil thoughts are displeasing to us,
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they are not sinfle We are only blame if we
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take pleasure in them. Okay. Well, how many of us
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are actually not guilty of that? Okay? And we all
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entertain evil thoughts in one shape or form. Evil thoughts
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are an abomination of the Lord. Proverbs fifteen twenty six.
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One ought to flee from unchased thoughts as one would
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flee from an assassin. For they cause the death of
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the soul. Impure thoughts, if entertained, give rise to impure
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desires I either wishing or longing for the sin suggested.
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That's what Pope Saint Clement of Alexandria called delectation. He
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went on great length in his writings in the second
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century about how one could be presented with temptation, but
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that in itself was not a sin. One could resist temptation,
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which was meritorious, or one could think about it and
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take pleasure in it even if one didn't do it,
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and that was in fact sinful venial though although it
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may be and yeah, you know, I'm guilty everybody. I'm sure.
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I'm not gonna say everybody is. I mean, obviously not
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everybody is. Often think it's a great blessing, you know,
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to certain you know, down syndrome and such children, that
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they're so innocent and pure they never have to worry
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about such things. Now, I mean, some of the high
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functioning ones do. But you know what I mean, You
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know what I mean, that's the purest soul you ever
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encounter on earth. Impure thoughts. If okay we said that,
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well I'll just say it again. Impure thoughts, if entertained,
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give rise to impure desires, the wish or longing for
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the sin. Suggested as the tree springs from the roots,
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so evil actions spring from lust. Lust is the consent
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of the will. And this is as really sinful as
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our Lord says the deed itself Matthew five twenty eight
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impure words. Now this is another tough one. Now I'm sudden,
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we don't how would I put it? Okay, some Yankees,
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folks from up North, most of the folks that go
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to church with cuss a lot without even thinking about it.
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They don't even mean anything by it. It's like part
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of their culture, right, I mean, like F this and
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F that. And you know how it is with folks
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from New York, New Jersey, in Chicago, I mean Boston,
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and they really cuss a lot. I'm not sure why,
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but it seems to be part of their culture. In
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the South, a man will cost in two situations. One
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if he's really angry, and if he starts cussing, you
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better run, because, as I've said many times, i carry
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a hunting knife, and I carry a pistol, and I've
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got a crowbar right under the seat of my truck,
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and you better look out. If I start cussing, means
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pushed you far. We don't cuss in like normal conversations.
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We just don't. We're taught as children. The other example,
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the other exception, which is guys cuss around each other
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in a light hearted way, making jokes. Now usually it's
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just like you know, light which you would call mildly
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profane words. We just give each other a hard time,
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not out of anger, not meaning anything by it, but
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not in general conversation, and never in front of women.
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Men in the South, at least the way I was
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I was. You know, I'm probably one hundred years out
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of time in modern culture. The way I was raised
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in you know, very traditional, old family, rural culture. Men
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never cussed in front of women. It was not done.
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If you cussed in front of women, somebody else was
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going to punch you in your mouth. I mean, I'm
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not kidding. That's the culture of the South. You open doors,
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you say yes ma'am and yes sir, and if you
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act like a jerk, somebody is going to beat you down. Okay.
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That is literally how I was raised. And I still
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do not cuss in general conversation. It's been really surprising
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to friends of mine from California ex most recent ex girlfriend,
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She's like, you never cuss. I'm like, well, you haven't
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seen me angry. But she's like, you know, to her,
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it's like, you know, second language from New Jersey was
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like really, he couldn't understand it at all, or I'm
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sorry he was from Chicago. But you get the idea. Actually,
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and traditional Catholic teaching, we're really not supposed to you
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will use foul language. I just put it that way.
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The problem comes down to the definition of profanity. No,
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I'm not talking like you know, Supreme Court dictate on
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what's pornography and not pornography. Okay, No, what it comes
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down to is America is essentially English in its culture.
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We speak the English language, the English. The English derive
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essentially from what we would call the English Saxons, some
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Celtic influence, and the Normans the French. The English do
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not like admitting that they are essentially half French, especially
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after the rise of Protestantism, so they began turning French
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words that were common in English language at the time
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of Shakespeare and considering them to be obscene. I'll give
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you an example, close your ears if you're sensitive, piss. Okay,
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you will look in Shakespeare and you will find it
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quite frequently. You will find it quite frequently in old
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medical text. Of course, it was the word for your nation.
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The English decided it was obscene because it's a French
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word pursuer. Okay. So they decided that anyone who said
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it was low class, possibly French and not English, and
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they were to be shunned. Okay. So, and there are
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other words from German that are considered, you know, cuss
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words in English language. Not all of what the English
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would consider to be profanity is in itself profane. It's
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just not their modern version of English. Saxon of English
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language whatever. English are quite arrogant. But it's the intent
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of the word that matters. I mean, you take the
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F word. I mean, I'm a Catholic podcast, I'm gonna
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try to not you know, if your kids are listening,
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I'm trying not to offend anybody. You know what it means.
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It's initials for unlawful carnal knowledge. That was an abbreviation
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in old law books, and it basically means rape. Okay.
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People now throw it around. They don't mean anything by it. Okay.
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So if someone who's grown up in Chicago, New Jersey
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or Brooklyn or whatever, or Boston, especially especially Philadelphia, Okay,
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let me just tell you, yeah, Philly, Okay. So if
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that's just part of their language and they don't mean
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anything bad by it, it's really difficult for us to
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kind of judge that in the same vein as Father
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Spirago would be speaking in eighteen ninety when the word
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didn't even exist, or the early True Fathers in like
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two three A D. It's the intent, and very usually
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the intent is to say something very offensive vulgar. Vulgar again,
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that's vulgar comes from the Latin word vulgate, which means
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the language of the common people. So again, I mean,
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it's really kind of hard. But basically, here's like the rule. Okay,
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if what you're saying will be offensive to someone who
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hears it, it's better that you not say it. That means,
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you know, in America, bloody doesn't mean anything, It just
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means bleeding. In England, it's a profanity. It's a profane term.
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Makes absolutely no sense to me. But if I were
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in England, I would probably not use it in my
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common language. But I would probably avoid using that term
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because it could have offended the listener, even if unintentionally.
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So if you come from the South, from up north,
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maybe don't walk around talking like my cousin Vinny. You know,
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we love the movie. It's a great movie. Actually, I
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just saw a bit of it yesterday. It just happened
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beyond one of my favorite parts of it. And I
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mean Marisa Tome, Oh my gosh, what a beautiful woman,
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like my ideal of feminine beauty. So of course I
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watched it for a minute and let me let me
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not stray into violating the sixth Commandment, and I'll try
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to think about her too much. No, seriously, she you know,
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absolutely my ideal. People who talk like that are very
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offensive to people in the South. Okay, most white Southerners
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never use what I have to now to be politically correct,
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called the N word. A lot of black folks do,
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a lot of black folk do, so, you know, just
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it depends where you are, It depends the language you're speaking,
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whether you're I mean, you could be speaking Cantonese and
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you could be cussing in words I've never been heard before.
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It's the intent behind it, Okay, so now let's get
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back to what father Sparago said. Okay, there's also two
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aspects of this one. As I said, if it's your
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culture to use a certain word, like black folk using
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the N word or people from New Jersey using the
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F word or whatever, they don't find it offensive, and
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no one who hears it finds its offensive. They don't
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mean to be using foul language. If your intent is
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to express anger, displeasure, what would father Spora would call
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it lasciviousness? Then you got an issue, and that's that's
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really kind of how you measure it. What is your intent?
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If you know, somebody like Tony Fauci pops into my
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mind and I start to call him an sob, I
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actually mean he's a despicable person, and I will try
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to catch my tongue and not call him that. But
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that's actually how I truly think about him, and I
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think he deserves such a title. But then again, that's
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the story gets his mother. Maybe she was a very
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nice person. Maybe I should figure out something else to
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call him, right, Okay, so this is the examination of
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conscious that a Catholic should do. I shouldn't call him
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a bastard, you know, I shouldn't call him an sob,
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but you know, there are a lot of things I
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probably shouldn't say about him, But I can say I
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describe him in the worst possible terms. But when I
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do that, am I being uncharitable? Hm? I don't know
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his motivation, but like it says, I can check the
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fruit on the vine, and I think he's one of
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the most despicable people ever to walk the face of
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the earth. Does my honest opinion If I'm wrong, I'm wrong,
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But I'm giving you my honest opinion in the way
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that's the least offensive. And that's where we're gonna go
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with this. Okay, So impure words, a man whose conversation
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is unclean has a thoroughly polluted conscience. Unchaste words, so
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we're really we're talking like sexual stuff here now are
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a sure sign of unchased manners. And those who take
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pleasure of listening to improper conversations are in great danger
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of falling into sentences of unchastity. Saint Louis, the great
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French Saint before France silt to the left, the socialists,
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the godless communists and democrats and whatever you want to
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call him. Saint Louis, on his deathbed, exhorted his own
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son to regulate his conversation, that if all the world
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heard what he said, he would not have cause to
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blush for it. The tongue is indeed a little member
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and boasted great things James three. Five. Many have fallen
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by the edge of the sword, but not as many
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who have perished by their own tongue. And I believe
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that I'm having trouble with this one again, y'all. I'm
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not sure if it's Ecclesiastes or Sirac. I think this
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is Syrac, and I'm going to go with twenty eight
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twenty two, all right, three? By impure actions. These acts
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are differently designated accorded as they are committed by the
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unmarried Deuteronomy twenty two twenty one and the married because
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twenty ten persons related to one another one Corinthians five
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to one, or as their sins against nature Romans won six. Oh,
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how do I explain that? Okay, well, the things a
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man and woman can do as husband and wife that
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single people shouldn't do together. But for most of our history,
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people who related to each other were encouraged to become
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man and wife, and now we don't encourage that anymore.
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And then sins against nature are unnatural acts, homosexuality and such,
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all right, So for by immodest looks. Bold looks are
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forbidden because they lead to sin. Boy, we don't learn
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that in our culture, do we. I remember an ex
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girlfriend said to me one time, one mom will forgive
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anything except timidness. In other words, she really liked being.
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If a guy liked her, she really liked him to
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let her know. And a lot did and we didn't
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have a very long relationship. Bold looks, well, we just
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said that. Okay. The sin in which the eye looks
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with pleasure soon takes possession of the heart. Many have
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perished by the beauty of a woman, and hereby lust
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is enkindled as a fire. I think this is actually
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Ecclesiastes nine to nine. He who observes no custody of
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the eyes is like a driver who pays no heed
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to his horses. He will be carried away and dragged destruction.
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Or like a fortress of which the gates are not guarded,
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the enemy soon affects an entrance through them. Davis. David
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would not have so much to bewall if he had
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kept watch over his eyes, looked not round about the
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in the ways of the city. I think again, from Ecclesiastics,
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these abbreviations for Ecclesiastes and Ecclesiasticis or syrac are so
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very close. I'm kind of guessing at most times looking
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at modest pictures, going to improper plays, and reading books
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of an immoral tendency. You know, this is so foreign
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to our culture. Okay, I mean we are society just
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absolutely saturate in pornography. The Catholic Church does forbid pornography,
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participating it or viewing it or whatever. Improper plays, movies
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or plays which are sacrilegious, overly sexual, early violent, you know, etc.
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But reading books of an a moral tendency, Yes, the
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Catholic Church, with its authority given by Christ, has the
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right and duty to censor books that are bad for
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Catholics to read. Now we live in an era of
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censorship and free speech. Well, there is actually something in
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between which says, in matters of morals and religion, that
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one church established by Christ does have the right to
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censor books that would lead to moral decay. You know,
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had the French Revolution never taken place, had the various
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you know, so called Enlightenment movements never taken place. The
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Communist Manifesto would have been banned by the Catholic Church
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and no one would have read it. There would not
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have been a communist revolution in Russia and China and
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Cuba and et cetera, and minimum two hundred million lives
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would have been spared. So I mean, you want to
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give me the justification for why censorship is wrong, while
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there is actually one organization on the face of the
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earth that has the right and duty to censor what
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is evil, and had it been allowed to do so,
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around nineteen hundred two hundred million lives would have been spared,
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plus probably five times that many killed through abortion and
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no Nazis, no concentration camps, etc. No, I mean two
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World wars. Let's sayd those deaths. I mean not just
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you know, citizens killed by their own governments, but the
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millions killed in two World Wars and then Korea and Vietnam.
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And yeah, So, actually, the Catholic Church is a really
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legitimate role and duty in that regard. You don't like it, Sorry,
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Jesus gave his authority to the Church, not to you.
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If you think you know better than the church. You're
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worshiping yourself and you're actually violating the first commandment. You've
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made yourself your own God. No, there is a Catholic
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church established by Jesus Christ who can say this book
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is evil and it should not be read by anyone.
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And yeah, you remember we just talked about Saint Louis
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of St. Louis the Tenth. Is that right France? He
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rounded up all immoral books, all books that were opposed
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to Christianity. He hadn't burned. And he's a saint and
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probably the greatest king of France, a hero of the
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Crusades and a saint. I mean, just you know, really
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one of the best people ever lived. It's actually okay
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to ban, to censor evil, so it isn't spread. It
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spreads like a fire in people's minds. You don't believe me,
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just I don't know. Go on Twitter or Facebook and
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just get an idea of how many people are absolutely
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addicted to pornography these days. You think they can that
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a lot of these are children who are being abused
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and sold into sex, slavery and really bad stuff happening. No,
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they're addicted to the images, and that needs to be
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an end needs to be put to it. When America
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becomes Catholic, maybe that will happen. And I do believe
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America will eventually become Catholic because Protestantism is dying mainly
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because of stuff like this, pornography, of abortion, divorce, everything
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that destroys the family. The family is the foundation of
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the church. You have no families, You have nobody going
36:39
to your Methodist or your Baptist, or your Luther or
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your Presbyterian Church or whatever. So anyway, immodest pictures and
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plays corrupt more surely than in pure conversation, because what
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one sees makes a deeper impression than what one hears.
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The indiscriminate reading of novels is to be avoided. And
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you know, the novel, the fictional novel, right is actually
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a very new thing. It only started around the mid
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eighteen hundreds. We're talking with Egg, Grahum, Poe and a
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few others. All I mean ninety nine percent of the books, well,
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I'll say ninety percent of the books published in America
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right now are fictional novels. Before about the mid eighteen hundreds,
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there would be mainly nonfiction books on science and botany
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and religion, and philosophy and history, and yeah, people are
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a lot smarter. You can definitely go back and look
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at the of the schools their curriculum at the time.
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People are a lot smarter. But anyway, the induscript, okay,
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the indscript reading of novels to be avoided. There are many,
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and these are the most dangerous of all. Of course,
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it's for television which in the Internet, which under a
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false similance of propriety, kindle the passions and thus do
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more harm than works of an openly immoral character. Very true.
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And then we get to immodesty and dress and excessive finery.
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Those who dress im moderately are the devil's instruments, for
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they ruined souls. Vanity and love of dress are powerful
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factors in Satan's service. For a woman who decks her
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their person to attract men, dare not presume to say
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that they are chased and pure of heart. Their very
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appearance gives them the lie. Their longing for admiration does
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not come from a simple heart. It is a snare
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to entrap others and into vice. It is a bad
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sign for a woman to be over dressed. Those who
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make their toilet a paramount that means their makeup and such,
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not their toilet. They mean their bathroom importance, hold virtue,
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cheap let women adore themselves with modesty and sobriety, not
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with plated hair or gold or pearls or costs the
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attire for Timothy to nine. Now, Saint Francis de Sal
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made a distinction which I think is important to point out.
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If one is dressing immodestly merely for attention, that's a
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venal sin. Okay. If one is dressing immodestly to seduce
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another into an immoral union, we shall say. You know,
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I'm trying to remember that children may be listening. Also
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a sin venial as well. If a single woman A
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dresses to attract the tension of a single man in
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hopes to they'll start dating and get married, that's okay,
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saying Francis to Sal says, that's okay. I absolutely agree
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with that. I don't think wearing a you know, pearls
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and an earring or a necklace is going to lead
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anybody into sin. That's kind of ridiculous in my opinion.
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I mean, I'm not attracted a jewelry. I've never actually
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seen a woman who looked prettier because she had jewelry on.
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That seems to me more like something women enjoy. Okay more,
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I mean just because they like it. Men don't care,
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don't give a crap about it. Okay, Hey, there's another
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old English word okay, no offense intended. That actually is
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one of those, you know that was considered to be
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a part of the language of the common people that
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the elites would not speak. But there's no foul intent.
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I don't care about perfume. Some people do, not, my
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thing doesn't. I actually usually bothers my allergies. I don't
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like it. Makeup I think can go way too far.
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But as there's an old, wonderful old English comedy British
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comedy called Last of Summer Wine, one of my favorites.
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Actually it's very just peaceful and relaxing. But anyway, one
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of the characters she never wore makeup and shows very
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stern and very intense. And her friend said to her
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that while she shouldn't go overboard with wearing makeup, there's
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no virtue and looking like you've just recovered from a
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severe illness, you know, adding a little color to the cheeks,
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a little color of little lips certainly not going to
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do any harm to anybody. I don't think. Now in
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the eighteen nineties maybe that was scandalous. I don't know.
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I can tell you the low cut dresses and such
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that were very common in the seventeen eighteen hundreds would
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be considered imodest by many now, like traditional Catholic women
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and such that like to dress like their Amish or something.
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Father Spirago did not condemn that whatsoever. Okay, so I'm
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going to go for Saint Francis de Salle's instruction, and
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you'll find this in his writings that I see, hoping
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to attract a single man to get married is not
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violating any precept against virtue by dressing in a way
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that will get attention. And remember what also feathers Brager said,
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the woman is made for man, not made for the woman,
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and the woman is made to delight the man. And
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if a woman wants to find a husband, getting noticed
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in a positive way is probably not a bad thing
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to do. So those that you know, and there are
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a lot of you know, really really ultra conservative traditional
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Catholics who say women shouldn't wear any makeup, women shouldn't
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fix their hair, and anything but a simple braid. Women
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should wear burlapsed sacks as dresses and walk in walk
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barefoot all the time. Okay, that's not exactly actual traditional
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Catholic teaching. The issue there is modesty, and modesty is
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actually very cultural. If you go to a Hispanic mass,
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you will see that the Mexicans and South American folks
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tend to dress a lot different with a lot of
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shiny stuff as opposed to the folks in America and
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from our English tradition. So you've got to always put
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all that in perspective. So we're going to wrap this up.
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Sins against the sixth Commandment of God are for the
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most part very grievous in God's sight, and accordingly are
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severely punished by him. Remember the deluge and the fate
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of Salem Bengamara, the chastisement God inflicks for the sins
43:44
of unchastity have already been spoken of under the subject
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of deadly sins. From the place given to the six
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Commandment in the Decalogue, it may be inferred that transgressions
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of this precept are on par with murder and theft. Unhappily,
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many of the plays performed in the theater and the
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present day represent sins against the sixth Commandment in an
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attractive light. And remember this is eighteen ninety. If Father
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of Spirago had been around now to turn on the
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television or go on the internet, I don't know what
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he would have done. He wouldn't have been happy. I
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think it was Czechoslovakian. They tend to be a bit
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hot tempered in my experience. A few checks I've done,
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he might have really let people know it. So anyway,
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y'all have a good one, and I'll always remember the
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words Saint Padre Pia, pray, hope and don't worry, and
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I'll talk to you next time.